Molyneux Officially Confirms Natal for Fable 3

Coy hints and suggestions finally official at a BAFTA lecture.

Speaking at a lecture for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), noted game designer Peter Molyneux finally gave official confirmation that Fable 3 will include Natal support. The revelation came by tweets from attendees Nicholas Lovell and Johnny Minkley (via VG247). There are still no details on how Natal will function for the upcoming game, but given that Molyneux is spear-heading the Natal effort, it was really only a matter of time before we heard official word on the inclusion.

In fact, Molyneux hasn't been shy about dropping very clear hints in the past, so this really doesn't come as a surprise. So far Fable 3 is the highest-profile of Natal-supported games that we've heard of, and set to launch in the holiday season of next year. Natal has sparked a lot of buzz among gamers and developers, but a franchise title like Fable may be a sort of proving grounds for whether the function can find a place in so-called hardcore games.

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hah, so true at the get a hobby out of moms house comment...

Its supposed to be people playing games and having fun but so far on the net at least is mostly bitter dorks that take it way too seriously, if they tryed something outside of moms house that involved some physical activity we would probably see 90% less of those posts.
And Fable 2 was awesome, you want overrated? Try Zelda, damn OOT was great, MM to a lesser extent and so was WW(TP was the worst), but damn are these nintendo games overrated(and I own all their consoles), but I guess that's fine if you have a million fanboys to back it up.

Ol' Pete's At It Again

AHHHHHH! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT! PETER MOLYNEUX IS GONNA USE NATAL FOR FABLE III! Holy crap! I totally can't believe this is true! This is the most exciting thing in world. I totally can't wait to be able to play Fable III! And I can't wait now to be able to play it on NATAL!!!! HOLY CRAP!

Eh... Anyway, anyone who thinks this is news deserves to have their brains scooped out with a fork monkey stomped and mailed back to their mother. This isn't news at all. All this guy does, is Fable pretty much. When you mentioned Natal at E3 with his molested boy he keeps contained in a camera on top of the screen (check out the IGN version. It'll make you crap your pants with laughter) you knew or you should've known by then that he would 1) Use this for Fable and promise it and then 2) Not deliver since he's so well known for that as well.

In the end, who friggin cares. An Xbot? Yup. Only a die hard Xbot, nobody else is even gonna care. I played Fable on the Xbox, LOVED IT! Then my buddy told me about a game glitch and sold all my stuff and ruined the experience for me. But I never even cared or bothered to pick up Fable II because, what was promised for Fable and never delivered, was sure to recycle the process in 2. So why should I care about 3? I'll stick to Gears of War thanks. That's GEARS OF WAR 3. Still no news. Rumor has it Microsoft penned a 2 game deal with Epic and Epic has the option to develop for the PlayStation 3 this time around. Cliffy B. was pretty impressed with Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. I think his faith in the PlayStation 3 has been restored as he had given Naughty Dog high praise for their masterpiece. Sorry, back to Gears 3. When?

Peter + Natal = Perfect combo...

In all honesty..

I'd rather finally have an online RPG like morrowind/oblivion or something instead of motion features.

I DON'T want my console to recognize me, I don't want it to watch me or look at me at all, thats creepy and could be abused.

Most importantly, fable isn't hardcore, its pretty boring and mundane. When the first fable came out I ignored it completely until several years later where I attempted to play a friends copy but the first 10 minutes of the game - visually - made me vomit in my mind. The characters are the ugliest I have EVER seen in a game of this calibur. I watched my nephew play fable 2 and even played once or twice for a few minutes and can - in all honesty - say that I could care less about anything 'fable'.

He stated last night that it would be controller based.

I have heard a lot of over the top nonsense about this today. Last night he stated that Fable III would use the traditional controller but that they would be mad not to make some use of natal if it detects you have it.

Lots of posts all over the place today have people asking why you would take a game like this and try to make it fit a motion control system. He was very clear last night that the controller is not evil, it has been fine tuned over time to work for the type of core games we play... the challenge they have with Natal is not adapting games to use it, but thinking of new things that they can do with it that werent possible before. He seemed very pleased with the idea that the console can now recognise who you are.

The main problem with this type of tech is developers using it incorrectly, it was nice to see someone standing up to talk about how it can add to, not replace, the current experience.

As far as Fable is concerned I wouldnt be suprised to see the usual actions such as posing, waving etc using body gestures, so if you want to you can wave at the camera instead of navigating through the actions wheel

Amazing...

how Molyneux has the cheek to constantly make promises he knows he will inevitably break. Even more amazin is the fact that people paid Fable 2 any attention when it was launched in the same span as Fallout 3.

Fables..? Hardcore?

I guess the description of a hardcore game would be what, then? Easy? Impossible to die? Short story? Small amount of armor, weapon and item sets? A game that holds your hand the entire way through? -Casual-, or scrubbish as I hate the terms hardcore and casual anyway.

And on a side note, as an ex lover of Fable, Natal? Motion? In a Fable game? Ridiculous!

Yay

That's gonna be great. Can't wait for Fable 3. Even more so now. They went in the right step with coop (which will definitely end up amazing in 3 and not so restrictive) but now there's the potential for facial/vocal recognition. Lionhead loves innovating in great ways even though it leads to other parts being dumbed down... this could end up being great, which I'm looking forward to.